396 MR. SPENCER LE M. MOORE—PHANEROGAMIC BOTANY 
. instructa. Corolle tubus 1:5 cm. long. et 0:3 cm. lat. intus prope fauces villosulus, 
ceteroquin glaber, annulus 0:06 em. lat.; squame 0°15 cm. long., 0:05 cm. lat., 
ad annulum attingentes, aut paullo breviores; limbi circa 2:0 cm. diam. lobi vix 
0:8 em. long. patuli. Filamenta basi pubescentia. Anthere circa 0'4 cm. long. 
Discus paullo ultra 0:1 cm. alt. Stylus ultra 1:0 cm. long., juxta apicem rugatus. 
Inter species Brasilienses accedit ad Prestoniam Gaudichaudii (Hemadictyon Gaudi- 
chaudii, A. DC.), cujus folia disparia, nempe insigniter angustiora, pedunculi longiores, 
calyce et corolla minores, etc. [Bras. Or., Amazonia. | 
ANISOLOBUS ZUCCARINIANUS, Miers, Apoc. S. Amer. p. 171. (4. hebecarpus, Muell. 
Arg., var. erectus.) 
Hab. Crescit ad Cuyabá, ubi mens. Aug. floret. (N. 40.) [Bras. Or.] 
The leaves of my plant are smaller than those of the type, and the disk is somewhat 
shorter, but I have no doubt about the identification, particularly as the type has been 
found at Cuyabá. 
Ecurres ($ MESECHITES) SANCTA-CRUCIS (sp. nov.); ramulis tenuibus, puberulis; foliis 
distantibus breviter ac tenuiter petiolatis, ovato-oblongis, raro ovatis, cuspidatis 
vel breviter cuspidato-mucronatis, deorsum paullo attenuatis, et reverá basi rotun- 
datis vel brevissime cordatis, nonnunquam acutatis, tenuiter coriaceis, subobsolete 
puberulis; pedunculis quam folia brevioribus, rigidis, ascendentibus, puberulis; 
bostrycibus abbreviatis, simplicibus vel bifidis, congestifloris, crebre bracteatis, 
puberulis ; bracteis exiguis, ovatis vel rotundatis, obtusis, extus puberulis; floribus 
longiuscule pedicellatis; pedicellis arrectis, puberulis; calycis puberuli pedicellis 
circa 2-plo brevioris lobis ovatis, obtusis vel subacutis ; corolla tubo extus puberulo, 
medio constricto, utrinque ampliato, paullo supra medium staminigero, lobis 
cordatis acutiusculis a tubo 4-plo superatis; disci glandulis elongatis, subliberis, 
ovario brevioribus ; ovario elongato. 
Hab. Crescit ad Santa Cruz, ubi floret mens. Nov. (N. 604.) 
Ramuli teretes, 01-015 cm. diam., intervallis plerumque 5:0-14-0 em. foliigeri. Folia 
pleraque 6:5-8'0 em. long. et 2:5-3:5 (raro 2:0 vel 4-5) em. lat., supra nitida, subtus 
pallida; costæ secundariz utrinque 5-7, distantes, alternatim raro opposite vel sub- 
opposite insertze, plus minus undulatim arcuate ; petioli circa 1:0 em. long., patentes, 
puberuli. Pedunculi 1:0-2:0 em. long., 01 cm. diam.  Bostryces plerumque 10-25- 
florze, nec ultra 0'8 em. long. et 0-2em. lat. Bracteæ usque ad 0-1 cm. long., margine 
ciliate. Pedicelli usque ad 1-0 em. long. Calyx 0:4 em. long., ad medium partitus, 
intus basi squamis late ovatis, apice erosis, plerumque alte bifidis, 0:06 cm. long. 
auctus. Corolla pæne 2:0 em. long., viridis; tubus 17 em. long, basi 0:3 em. lat. ; 
limbus 0:5 em. diam. Disci lobi 0:18 em. long., late lineares, obtusissimi, carnosuli. 
Ovarium 0:25 cm. long. ssepe inequilaterale, puberulum. Follicula maxime 
immatura, apice solummodo connata, puberula. 
Certe ad E. trifidam, Jacq. (Mesechitem trifidam, Muell. Arg.) spectat, sed ob 
indumentum, flores minores, ovarium et discum multo majores et reverá illud hunc 
